25/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - During the meeting of MEPs with the President of the Lebanese Parliament, Nahib Berri (also president of the Arab Parliamentary Union), on 24 November in Brussels, Socialist Béatrice Patrie, Chair of the EP Delegation for relations with the Mashrek countries, placed emphasis in a press release on: - EU assistance to Lebanon to promote an "administration that is less tainted by corruption", "the need for Lebanon to regain full sovereignty towards its neighbours, including Syria", and the "necessary place of women in public life" in the countries of the region (including full voting rights where they do not yet exist for women).